{"id":6166,"date":"2014-11-27T07:52:59","date_gmt":"2014-11-27T07:52:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/?p=6166"},"modified":"2014-11-27T07:52:59","modified_gmt":"2014-11-27T07:52:59","slug":"trick-or-treat-stats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/2014\/11\/27\/trick-or-treat-stats\/","title":{"rendered":"Trick or Treat Stats"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that US citizens spent some $7.4bn in the run up to Hallowe'en. \u00a0This included:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>$2.2bn on confectionery (\"candy\")<\/li>\n<li>$1.1bn on costumes \u2013 for kids<\/li>\n<li>$1.4bn on costumes \u2013 for adults<\/li>\n<li>$0.35bn on costumes \u2013 for pets<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That's ~$15\u00a0each, on average. \u00a0Much of this expenditure will have been on imported goods. \u00a0Then there were all those pumpkins. \u00a0All good for GDP, of course.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It seems that US citizens spent some $7.4bn in the run up to Hallowe'en. \u00a0This included: $2.2bn on confectionery (\"candy\") $1.1bn on costumes \u2013 for kids $1.4bn on costumes \u2013 for adults $0.35bn on costumes \u2013 for pets That's ~$15\u00a0each,...<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":237,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[2,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-comment","category-news-and-updates"],"acf":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/237"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6166\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bath.ac.uk\/edswahs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}